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E. WAGNER.

WASH-"Hi MACHINE.

(Application filed'Sept. 22, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL WAGNER, OF DAVENPORT, IOWA.

WASHING- MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 688,369, dated December 10, 1901. Application filed September 22, 1900. S'BIlfilNd- 30,762. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL WAGNER, of Davenport, county of Scott, and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Washing-Machines; and I do declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawings making a part of the same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof;

This invention relates to that class of washing-machines in which is employed a tub or receptacle for holding clothes and cleansing fluid and in which a stirrer or agitator secured to a swinging bar is located within the tub and by manual operation of, mechanism located above the tub-lid the stirrer is caused to be moved or swung forward and backward.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and economically-constructed machine for the purpose of washing or cleaning clothes.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of my invention with a portion of the side of the tub broken away to disclose the stirrer located within. Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1 viewed on the line :10 w thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the enlarged portion of the swinging or operating arm.

In the drawings, A- represents the tub, which, with the exception of the top or lid, is preferably made semicylindrical in form. B B represent legs orstandards to support said tub.

O is the tub lid or cover, which is preferably hinged at one end, as is shown at O.

D is the lever-arm, whose lower end is provided with a pin or journal extending through such arm and on each side thereof. The ends of such pin are loosely mounted in bearing-brackets E, secured to the tub-lid. To the lever-arm, near its longitudinal center, is loosely secured one end of an arm F.

G is the swinging bar, which near its longitudinal center is provided with a pin H, projecting on each side of the swinging arm, and such projecting ends are mounted in bearingbrackets I,s ecured to the tub-lid. Said swinging arm extends downward through an openingin the lid 0 and into the tub. At or near the lower end of such swinging arm is a block ing arm passes through the tub-lid the same is circularly enlarged, as shown by G in Figs.

Where said swingwhen the clothes are drawn backward and forward by the stirrer-block will serve a pur pose similar to the ordinary washboard in re moving the foreign substance from the clothes to be cleaned. i

It will readily be seen from this description if soiled clothes and a cleasing fluid are placed within the tub that by grasping the upper portion of the lever-arm D and moving it forward and backward the block J, with the pegs J will be swung backward and forward, causing the clothes to be moved and stirred within the tub and rubbed against the corrugations L, through which action foreign substances will be removed therefrom. The weight, K as the arm F is lowered will assist in moving the swinging bar, greatly facilitating the easy operation of the machine.

Having described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patout- In a washing-machine, the combination of a tub with a cover, said cover provided with a central elongated perforation or slot, brackets adjacent to the sides of said slot, an upright bar mounted in said brackets to swing and extending above and below the tub-lid, a stirrer-block secured to the lower end of said upright bar, a pitman or bar loosely secured to the upper end of said upright bar, said pitman provided with a weight at one end, means which are operatively connected to the other end of said pitman, for the purposes stated and substantially as shown.

Witness myhand this 15th day of September, 1900.

EMIL WAGNER. Witnesses:

A. G. SAMPSON, M. A. BROWN. 

